Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

NEWS.com.au
5000 Queensland babies on waiting list for tuberculosis vaccine
NEWS.com.au
A chronic global shortage of the Bacille Calmette Guerin vaccine meant it was unavailable in Australia for all of 2016 and health authorities are struggling to clear the backlog, leaving thousands of children without defence to the wasting disease once ...

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The Mercury
Child justice system 'racist'
The Mercury
THERE would be a national taskforce to fix the crisis in child protection and youth justice if it involved white rather than Aboriginal children, Australia's only indigenous children's commissioner says. Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children ...

The Australian
Indigenous art gets largest display at National Gallery of Australia
The Australian
Several of Nona's works — large-scale lithographs of astonishing beauty and intricacy — feature in the National Gallery of Australia's groundbreaking Defying Empire exhibition, the largest survey of contemporary indigenous art yet mounted at the ...

ABC Online
Police stay silent in trial over eight-year-old Aboriginal boy locked in ...
ABC Online
Two NSW Police officers declined to testify in court on Friday over accusations of leaving an eight-year-old in the back of a wagon.

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Mandurah Mail
'I'm a survivor': Aunty Judith and the fight for culture
Mandurah Mail
“I'm a survivor”, my good friend and Aboriginal activist Aunty Judith said to me two years ago, shortly after I moved to Australia from my homeland Spain. At the time, I didn't know half as much about Aboriginal culture, native title and Canberra's ...

NEWS.com.au
Arnhem Land: Australia's 'last frontier' welcomes new Intrepid Travel tours
NEWS.com.au
Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory, is bordered by Kakadu National Park, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria. IS THIS AUSTRALIAN PARADISE EVEN REAL? WHAT IT'S LIKE TO VISIT ARNHEM LAND · TOP 5 REASONS TO VISIT THE TOP END.

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Australian Olympic Committee
Australian Indigenous Olympians recognised for Olympic Day
Australian Olympic Committee
AOC: The spirit of the Olympic movement was alive and well today, as the Australian Olympic Committee hosted a 'Reception for Indigenous Olympic Athlete Recognition' at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence. A perfect tie in to International ...

ABC Local
When mum goes to prison
ABC Local
While Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women only make up 2 per cent of Australia's population, they constitute around 34 per cent per cent of its prisoners. "Studies suggest that around 80 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

the AU review (blog)
POPSART: La Boite's HWY – Deconstructing 'Australian-ness' through theatre
the AU review (blog)
Beetson said about the process of making the work “The kids had just seen in the media Don Dale, things that were happening in Kalgoorlie and they were questioning what Australians thought of them as young Australian Aboriginal people. ” The story is ...

Scottsdale Independent
Aboriginal Australian female art work to be shown in Scottsdale
Scottsdale Independent
A new exhibition featuring paintings and sculptures of nine contemporary women artists from the remote Aboriginal areas of Australia will open in September at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition, “Marking the Infinite ...

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ABC Online
Constitutional recognition: Australia's founding document should not embody 'racist past', Pat Dodson says
ABC Online
"It seems to assume that an Indigenous voice in the Constitution could be strong enough to challenge the entrenched structural racism which shapes the policies and laws that affect the lives of Aboriginal people without removing the racist elements of ...

Lawyers Weekly
Lawyers call for legislative protection for Indigenous artists
Lawyers Weekly
However, Ms Ayres said Indigenous artists are being forced to compete against producers of imitation products, who are diverting an important income stream from many Indigenous communities. “The fake Indigenous art and craft that is so prolific in ...

The Reel Bits
Six Australian films set for world premieres at MIFF
Inside Film
Naina Sen's The Song Keepers chronicles the hidden musical legacy of ancient Aboriginal languages and German baroque songs that are being preserved by the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir. Eddie Martin's Have You Seen the Listers? is a ...
MIFF 2017: Premiere Fund brings six world premieresThe Reel Bits

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Echonetdaily
Coranderrk, an untold Australian history
Echonetdaily
The Ilbijeri Theatre Company present one of the many important neglected stories of Australian history – Coranderrk – the story of the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into the men and women of the Coaranderrk Aboriginal Reserve who went head to head ...

ABC Online
Western Australian elder jailed for outstanding fines, despite making regular payments
ABC Online
Western Australia's Attorney General's Department says it cannot say why a Goldfields Aboriginal Elder was arrested and jailed for five days for outstanding fines, despite making regular payments. Dadawarra Harris was arrested on March 31 for around ...

Echonetdaily
Coranderrk, an untold Australian history
Echonetdaily
The Ilbijeri Theatre Company present one of the many important neglected stories of Australian history – Coranderrk – the story of the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into the men and women of the Coaranderrk Aboriginal Reserve who went head to head ...

Armidale Express
Australian councils split on push to change Australia Day
Armidale Express
Huge protests by indigenous Australians and their supporters were held on Australia Day this year amid growing calls to change the date. The City of Fremantle in Perth also moved some of its Australia Day events to January 28, citing cultural ...
Australia Day date change a federal matter: Burnie City Council | POLLThe Advocate

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Yahoo7 News
Local councils rebel in 'ridiculous' Australia Day date change push
Yahoo7 News
Hobart City Council has been at the forefront of the push for change to recognise that many Aboriginal people regard January 26 as "invasion day". Aboriginal protestors in Adelaide on Australia Day this year. Photo: AAP. City councillors said they ...
Local councils join push to change Australia Day dateNEWS.com.au
Councils split on push to change Aust Day9news.com.au
Brisbane, Melbourne city councils unimpressed by Hobart's Australia Day date change motionNT News
Daily Mail
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SBS
'First Nations Iftar dinner' unites faith and culture
SBS
... Ms Thorpe said. Links between Islamic and Aboriginal people date back hundreds of years, from Macassan traders in the 1700s to Afghan cameleers who helped transport goods through outback Australia in the eighteen-hundreds and nineteen-hundreds.

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Golf Australia
Indigenous kids' big chance
Golf Australia
Golf Australia and the PGA of Australia have combined to create the 12-and-under team to give more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children the opportunity to display their golfing skills at an international event against other state/territory ...